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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of Gee, Norman Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 3:19 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: 5.4 --> 6.0 (server)

> What is your opinion of placing the DB2 database on a DS8300 or any
> other high end SAN? (RAID 5 only, all 15K drives) parity write
> overhead.
> Is it possible to access both a DS-4200 and a DS-8300 from the same
> pair of FC cards?  Different multipath drivers.

I don't know anything about DS-4200 -- but we've been running our TSM database 
on ESS Raid5 disk for a long time. I figure that if it's good enough for SAP R3 
on Oracle, it's good enough for TSM.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

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